The highest-wattage event of the trip, however, according to the PBS documentary Margaret: The Rebel Princess, was a dinner party hosted by Sharman Douglas at the Bistro Restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Margaret and Lord Snowdon met Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, and Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Torn Curtain. “Princess Margaret was especially intrigued by her encounters with various film stars while in Hollywood,” wrote Aronson in his biography. “None is more than two or three sentences long.” “The princess has made arrival speeches in each of the cities she has visited,” reported the New York Times.
While the visit was heavy on extravagance, it was light on traditional diplomacy. The “would not” list: Champagne and oysters.) Once on American soil, the couple was transported by either Rolls-Royce or Cadillac. (The “would” list: fresh fruit and tea for breakfast Chesterfield and Gauloises cigarettes. Hotels were called ahead of time to be alerted of what the princess and her husband would and would not indulge in. In an act of extravagance that would likely never be allowed today, the plane actually looped back to make double trips on the “short hops”-because the aircraft was not large enough to fit both the entourage and the royals’ luggage. publication of Lord Snowdon’s book Private View.) The couple traveled with an entourage of eight-including the princess’s private secretary, lady-in-waiting, maid, and hairdresser, plus a Scotland Yard investigator-and 50 pieces of luggage on a plane outfitted with a blue-green lounge chair for the princess. Princess Margaret biographer Theo Aronson wrote that the visit-with stops in Tucson, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York-was “undoubtedly most important tour to date.” (Originally a chance to visit Margaret’s friend, the American socialite Sharman Douglas, the trip also coincided with the U.S.
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